From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 19:17:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1174616A426 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 19:17:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@infopuls.com) Received: from igel.cyberlink.ch (igel.cyberlink.ch [62.12.136.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C316743D70 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 19:16:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulrich@infopuls.com) Received: (qmail 22855 invoked by uid 600); 1 Apr 2006 19:16:53 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.0.9 ppid: 22843, pid: 22845, t: 0.1323s scanners: regex: 1.0.9 clamav: 0.88/m:36/d:1364 Message-ID: <20060401191653.22843.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch> References: <20060227231802.8883.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch> <20060228020917.GA2778@xiao.rsnet> <20060228074937.GB39184@freebie.xs4all.nl> From: Ulrich To: Ulrich Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 21:16:53 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: PWS500a (Mitia) first install - some progress, three strange observations, one serious problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:17:01 -0000 Hi Everybody I still try to get FreeBSD running on my PWS500a. The keyboard problem disappeared after I replaced the keyboard and I can now operate sysinstall. This was the "progress" part. It's a little bit surprising that the kernel configuration phase is skipped, but this shouldn't be a problem because the network adapter, the harddisk controller and other components are correctly recognised and seem to work properly - with one exception which I will talk later about. When it comes to the 10 Seconds count down before loading the kernel I only see the message and the three numbers 10, 9 and 8 for less than a Second and loading of the kernel starts automatically. I install via local FTP and get the message that the requested version isn't available at the FTP host although the file /cdrom.inf contains "CD_VERSION = 4.9-RELEASE" which seems to be the correct value, isn't it. So I replace "4.9-RELEASE" with "any" and the installation starts. This was the "three strange observations" part. Alas, while installing the first distribution package I get the message "panic: timeout table full" and this is really the end of the story so far. Partitioning this SCSI disk and newfs worked fine which makes me believe that there might be a way to get around that problem. Does anybody know what I should try? Maybe 4.10 or 4.11, since 5.4 doesn't work at all? Or is there any option that I can pass to the kernel? Are the "three strange observations" normal or is there a problem with my configuration? There is one AIC78XX SCSI controller in the box and one harddisk connected to this controller. There are no other harddisks. I know that I cannot boot using that controller but the FreeBSD Alpha documentation says that this controller can be used with FreeBSD. Since I don't have in mind switching off this machine often I would be happy to boot from FDs. So far I don't see any reason why this shouldn't work. Thanks for any hints. Ulrich